Best of Pitchfork Music Festival 2012

Union Park's attendees waded in mud at times and baked under the relentlessly hot sun at others during Pitchfork's eighth annual festival. Besides the battle against the elements, festival goers had plenty else to engage them, as the weekend offered a palate of surefire hits and miscalculated flops.

Best of Pitchfork Music Festival 2012

Best of Pitchfork Music Festival 2012

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Most Impressive Solo Performance

Photo credit: Gideon Resnick
Willis Earl Beal gyrated, thrusted, and belted his soul with merely a reel-to-reel and some Jack & Coke as company onstage.